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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. HIGGINS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES E. ROE AND ALFRED RUSSELL, OF SAME PLACE.

FRUIT-BASKET.

'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,812, dated January 18, 1881.

L Application filed October l1, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HIGGINS, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certainV Improvements in'Fruit-Baskets, of which the following is a specification.

VMy said invention relatos to the device which I employ to attach the top or cover of afruit-basket to the body of the same, or to attach a veil of netting or bobbinet to such body. The common mode of making such attachment has been heretofore by use of a needle, running a thread of twine around the basket spirally and alternately under the upper hoop ofthe basket and over the bottom hoop of the cover when the same was made of the same material with the body, bu't if made of net-work, then through the lower edge ofthe netting; but this mode of attachment is expensive, unsightly, and when netting is used the same is apt to be torn by the thread used.

The device which I have invented is comparativel y free from these objections, and Will be hereinafter jfmore fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a side elevation of a` basket with a covering of net-work attached by means of my improvement, and Fig. 2 a likeelevation of a basket and cover made of the same or like material and in the same style. A indicates the body of the basket, and a its upper hoop; and B, the wooden cover, and b the lower hoop, of the same, as shown in Fig. 2. C indicates the netting, as shown in Fig. 1, and D and D indicate buttons or headed nails or screws, which are inserted into the upper hoop of the body and the lower hoop of the wooden cover, respectively, in such manner as to leave a neck between the head of the button, nail, or screw and thel hoop, and around this neck acord or wire, d, may be Wound, so that the adjoining hoops a of the body and b of the Wooden cover may be bound together, as shown in Fig. 2 5 or the cord d maybe wound around the necks of the buttons D and the netting C also, as shown in Fig. l, where the cord is wrapped around several threads of the netting at once, which, ofcourse, are better able to sustain the strain upon them all combined than if it were on a sin glc thread, which would be the case if the netting Were attached by sewing. Those buttons or headed nails constitute the core of the improvement, and are very cheap and convenient, and will result in a considerable saving of labor, as Well as animprovement in the appearance of the basket when in use.

It is manifest that the cords can be quickly and easily removed, and they may be made to hold either by tying into knots or Wrapping them tightly around the necks ot' the buttons, so that the ends will be confined between the heads and the hoops.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Afruit-basket provided upon thecircumference of its rim with headed nails or but,- tons, and with a cord tletachably connected With said nails or buttons 'and with the cover of the basket, wherebythe cover is removably held upon the basket, substantially as described an`d shown.

2. A fruit-basket having the upper hoop, a, provided with a series of headed nails or buttons, D, having necks, as described, and covers of netting C attached thereto by a cord, d, wrappedaround the necks of such buttons on the body of the basket and portions of such netting, substantially as described.

WM. H. HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

T. H. OAVANAUGH, WM. HEADLAM, Jr. 

